North Coast Old Stock Cellar Reserve Bourbon Barrel

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Fort Bragg, California USA

Serve in Snifter

Beer was probably my favorite beer of all time.beer has a really sweet aroma and a dark brown appearance. Beer tasted great

I love this beer.Pours brown in color with a medium cream color head.Aroma is good but not overwhelming. Sweet ,creamy with flavors of dates and raisin .

Bottle. [thanks after4ever]
Light murky deep amber with a small, frothy, off-white film head. Aroma has lots of sweet bourbon, light chocolate, fat caramel, plums, vinious. Lowish but prickly carbonation, fat and oily mouthfeel. Flavour is complex, light oxidation, caramel, plums,raisins, vinious, vanilla, sherry. Lovely warming. Lingering light bitter piney and toasted caramel finish. Very nice, but the other version was far better.

Pours a nice amber color. Good taste, but not great. I was expecting more, and would almost rather have a regular 2010 Old Stock Ale. The barrel aging didn’t help as much as I was hoping.

Sipped from a snifter slowly to stretch out the experience as long as I could. The high ABV taste is there, but it is pleasant and warm. The barrel is also there in the taste, but like the ABV it is a nice accent. I can’t afford to pay $28 for a half-liter very often, but this birthday treat was worth it. I will buy another to put away for my next birthday.

Bottle shared with beerboxer. Great beer. You can taste the bourbon barrel. With a slight alchole flavor. Good beer.

pours a dark gold color with a white fizz. Aroma is of oak and whiskey. Flavor is amazing.I feel like im drinking a vanilla bourbon. Wow its really worth the cost!

UPDATED: FEB 11, 2012 08 on tap at Uber (finally!) Three fingers off white. Murky amber. Strong cherry and vanilla. Slightly boozy. Smooth caramel, spicy, waxy. This is probably my favorite barley wine. Great stuff.